Motion Picture Ruins

Motion Picture Ruins, 2011, explores processes of digital decay using excerpts of kisses from existing films. As a symbol of our cultural memory, the ‘big Hollywood kiss’ can be understood as an inherent part of film history. Working with short clips extracted from Youtube, the digital files were altered at the level of data, using a compression-based algorithm to confuse their visual composition. The work can be seen an exercise in digital entropy, mutating the idyllic kisses of Hollywood into a layered topography of motion picture images.

SCREENINGS
Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseilles, (21 October - 4 December 2022)
Bomba Video Club, Moscow (15 October 2022)
Stitch and Glitch, The Bearded Tit, Redfern, Aus. (27 June - 6 August 2015)
The Breakup, 107 Projects, Sydney, Aus. (23 - 26 July 2014)
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Sydney, Aus. (5 February 2012) 
Electroprojections, G3 Gallery, Melbourne, Aus. (12 September 2012)
Trout Slap, Sydney College of the Arts Auditorium, Sydney, Aus. (23 May 2012)
Greatest Hits Film Night, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Aus. (22 March 2012)
Deja, Bandhouse Marrickville, Sydney, Aus. (3 December 2011)
Grad Show, Sydney College of the Arts (15 - 25 November 2011)
Space Trash #1, Cosmo’s Rock Lounge, Sydney, Aus. (20 November 2011)